Thanks to a pioneering program at UC Hastings, 3L Saman Shooshani can say to future clients with confidence: “I know how to protect your IP.”
Shooshani is participating in the 2-year-old Startup Legal Garage, which gives students a real-world, client-based education in representing early-stage technology and biotech companies.
Professor Robin Feldman, who founded the program at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, says most client-based educational programs are litigation-based. “I realized there was no reason that client-based education should be limited to litigation, especially when 40 percent of our students go into transactional work,” says Feldman, director of Hastings’ Institute for Innovation Law.
